Argentina Greenlights Cannabis Oil For Medicinal Use, Research of Marijuana For Therapeutic Purposes

Argentina gave legislative approval on Wednesday to legalize cannabis oil for medicinal use along with allowing the federal government to grow marijuana to conduct studies for therapeutic purposes, according to Reuters.

The measure will become law once it's signed by President Mauricio Macri whose Cambiemos party was the sponsor for the bill.

"Thirty percent of epileptics do not respond to traditional medicine," medical doctor Ana María García Nicora, who heads the Medical Cannabis Argentina group, told local television after the Senate's final vote on the measure. "My daughter has had epilepsy for 24 years and this is an option for her."

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Neighbors Chile and Colombia have adopted similar legislation, with Uruguay going as far to legalize smoking marijuana in attempts to take power away from criminals in the South American nation.

Brazil also had their first bill that would issue a license for sale of an oral spray derived from marijuana to treat forms of multiple sclerosis.

A three-year-old girl in the Argentinian coastal town of Villa Gesell, was prescribed medical cannabis to treat symptoms of her uncommon epileptic disorder, in the first such case of authorised cannabis use in the South American country, Friday.
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"We calculate that she had suffered around 700 convulsions a day, because each convulsion is a spasm, a movement, therefore she can have hundreds of those a day and it\'s very difficult to control them.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"She was taking four different anti-convulsion medicines plus a special diet, but she still had around 200 convulsions a day. She had five periods of convulsions a day, each one lasting around 20 minutes.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"Ten or twelve days after giving her the oil, Josefina went six whole days without convulsions.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"At the beginning [cannabis oil] entered the country as a diet supplement, now it is entering as a medicine because it has a therapeutical effect, and under Argentinian law if it has therapeutical effects, it is a medicine.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"Cannabis gave us a quality of life. Now my daughter smiles, she is relaxed, and this for us is peace. It\'s wonderful.\"
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A three-year-old girl in the Argentinian coastal town of Villa Gesell, was prescribed medical cannabis to treat symptoms of her uncommon epileptic disorder, in the first such case of authorised cannabis use in the South American country, Friday.
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"We calculate that she had suffered around 700 convulsions a day, because each convulsion is a spasm, a movement, therefore she can have hundreds of those a day and it\'s very difficult to control them.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"She was taking four different anti-convulsion medicines plus a special diet, but she still had around 200 convulsions a day. She had five periods of convulsions a day, each one lasting around 20 minutes.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"Ten or twelve days after giving her the oil, Josefina went six whole days without convulsions.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"At the beginning [cannabis oil] entered the country as a diet supplement, now it is entering as a medicine because it has a therapeutical effect, and under Argentinian law if it has therapeutical effects, it is a medicine.\"
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis patient (Spanish): \"Cannabis gave us a quality of life. Now my daughter smiles, she is relaxed, and this for us is peace. It\'s wonderful.\"
Video ID: 20160219-045
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A three-year-old girl in the Argentinian coastal town of Villa Gesell, was prescribed medical cannabis to treat symptoms of her uncommon epileptic disorder, in the first such case of authorised cannabis use in the South American country, Friday.
SOT, Maria Laura Alasi, Mother of medical cannabis p

After years of lobbying, Argentina just legalized cannabis oil for medical use—and these moms are overjoyed. \"In history, the big things always come in small steps.\"
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